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Desktop to Mobile

The aim was to let you transfer your browser history from desktop to a Windows Mobile PDA, so when you leave your desk, you can pick up where you left off in whatever you were doing online.

I’ve written the hack as a Firefox extension, and it currently has two modes:

• Always on
  Every web page you view in Firefox gets opened on the mobile browser in the background without you noticing. When you disconnect your mobile from the computer, you not only have the most recent page all ready for you in your mobile browser, but you also have a mirror of the Firefox history - so clicking ‘Back’ on your mobile browser will take you back to the previous page you were viewing with desktop Firefox.
• Single sync
  Take the current page you are viewing in Firefox, and open it on your mobile browser

The toggle to start/stop the ‘always on’ mode, and the switch to perform a single sync are both provided as toolbar buttons.

Install the Firefox extension here

Mobile to desktop

When the desktop computer detects a connection to the mobile, it invokes some C++ code on the mobile which queries the browser history. The most recent URL in the history is returned, and opened in the default desktop browser.